nations general assembly where he's expected to outline howar he will go to pvent ira fm obtaining a nuclear weapon the speech comes two days after president obama warned iran to time to dispute is not unlimited. let's focus first on the optics as far as how the whiteouse has handled this. the white house is saying what happened in lya w a terrorist attack, secreta of state clinton has walked back specifics as to whether the attack was driven by or carried out by an al qaeda affiliate in northern libya. i guess the question, as a senior political rorter at politicois, iis is this -- how do you assess the white house's handling of this in materi terms of the message and the back and forth of susan rice and the president. >>o it's hard right now to kindov t ad little bit. i think that they could have had huge issues right after the attack, vis-a-vis security, vis-a-vis egypt if mitt romney hadn't gotten in the way. >> right. >> i think that was a big deal he got in the way because that distcted crsn f at least ten days, him attacking the president. i think now, people have moved back t